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Disclaimer -- I do not own Super Smash Bros. Melee. The characters and such are property of Nintendo. (*Although, I do wish I owned Link! He's my fav!*) All of these writings are pure fiction and came from my imagination! (*Um.. what little imagination I have, that is!*) I am also sorry if any part of my story resembles anything else that has already been done or any other idea.

On another note, I do not own Kairi, Sora, or Kingdom Hearts since I used them in the story. ^_^

See Chapter One for additional author's notes and information.

Fiction By Sherri

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What The Future May Hold

Chapter Three -- Discussions

Fox's eyes swelled with disbelief. "Is he... "

"No, he's fine," Link answered. "But for some reason, he insisted on fighting me. I thought I had him calmed down, so I left the room, and and came back shortly after. We started talking. As soon as I mentioned Malon, he went balistic. He shouldn't be hurt -- not badly, at least I hope not -- but he did stab me in the hand. I just hit Roy over the head with the first thing I found, which happened to be his sheath. And that thing is pretty heavy."

"What did he stab you with? Certainly not his sword?"

"Nope," Link answered. "Ordinary kitchen knife. He had it in here from supper last night. I don't know what made him do it... "

"I thought he had moved on?" Fox asked, curiously. "I thought -- "

"Just get Kairi in here," Link ordered. "Ask her to stay with him and talk to him when he wakes. I didn't hit him hard, I promise. Just enough to stop him. Although making him unconcious wasn't what I had planned on, it sure enough stopped him from killing me."

Fox stood and nodded, heading back downstairs.

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"Roy needs you, right now, Kairi."

"Why? What's so urgent?" the girl asked innocently.

"Don't ask questions, just obey, alright? Roy's having serious problems, and he needs someone right now that cares about him, okay?"

"You're scaring me!" Kairi wanted to back away from him, but Fox grabbed her arm.

"You should be," Fox replied, almost coldly. "Just do as I say, for Roy's sake, alright?"

Kairi didn't say a word. She was lead upstairs by a frantic Fox.

Fox didn't like what he had seen in Roy's room, not one bit. It had frightened him terribly. Seeing Roy lying on the floor was more than enough to scare anyone. Fox even knew that Roy's actions had been very odd the past few weeks, but never did he expect to see something like that.

Fox and Kairi had reached Roy's room. To Fox's suprise, Roy was already awake. Link had drug him up to the bed and placed a cold cloth on his forehead.

"Link, I'm so sorry -- "

"It's fine," Link answered before Roy could finish his own sentence. "I shouldn't have brought it up. You said you were over it, but you're still sensitive. And who wouldn't be? She was your first love."

"I know," Roy replied. "I gave so much to her... "

"Guys?" Kairi asked shyly, heading slowly for Roy's bed.

Roy smiled once he saw her. "I thought you were upset with me."

"I got the message on my machine that asked me to meet you here. But it seems that you are preoccupied."

"No I'm not. Link was just on his way out," Roy said, giving Link his cue.

"See you later, Roy. I hope she can calm you down some more. You still seem to be pretty shaken. We'll talk more later about the other things, okay?"

"Sure thing. Bye."

Link shut the door behind him using his right hand. His left still had blood dripping from it. Link never knew that an ordinary kitchen utensil could cause so much pain. He had had swords stab him before, but this seemed to have hurt much worse. Maybe because the pain was inflicted on him by his dearest friend.

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"Are you sure?"

"He went crazy," Link answered his younger version. Link continued to wrap the white gauze bandage around his hand. "I really wish I didn't have to wrap this up. I don't want Zelda to see it."

"But why?" Younger Link asked, staring at Link.

"Because. It would just prove that her assumption about Roy is right. Roy's not a bad person. He jus has a few problems, like everyone else in the universe."

Young Link jumped up on the table in front of them. "That wound looks awful."

"I know," Link replied. "It should heal quickly, though. Nothing too serious."

"Serious?" Young Link choked. "He stabbed you! Would you mind telling me exaclty how he came to that?!"

Link took a deep breath. "If you insist. I just went in there to talk to him as Zelda asked. When I did, we somehow got into a conversation about Malon. I told him that Malon had been seeing someone else, and as you can see, he didn't take it very well."

"But why? I thought he was in lo -- "

"He likes Kairi, but you know how sensitive he is about losing Malon. He keeps saying, 'I never should have told her.' He's beating himself up over something he can't change."

"So he stabs you for reporting on his ex-girlfriend?" Young Link asked in wonder.

"And this stab wound only gives Zelda more reason to be suspicous of Roy, or tell me to stop associating with him until his habbit is broken."

"What habbit?"

Link taped the gauze firmly on his hand. "He confessed to me, Link. He has been drinking. And Marth knew the entire time."

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"You will be alright, won't you?" Dr. Mario asked, leaning over Roy's bed.

"For the final time: yes. I will be fine. It was a simple blow to the head."

"But why would Link do something like that?" Dr. Mario asked suspiciously.

"To keep me from killing him," Roy answered honestly. "I just went crazy. He mentioned the one name I made him swear never to say again."

"I guess I shant ask you what that name is?"

"Look, Link is the one you really need to be seeing right now. He's the one that's got the severe wound. I only have a headache, and that will go away once my vision clears. Just go see him, for me?"

Dr. Mario picked up his bag. "Sure thing, if that's really what you want." Without another word, the doctor left Roy's room.

Kairi, who had been silent the entire time, looked down at Roy. "Are you sure that's really what happened?"

"You don't believe me?" Roy asked, hurt.

"I didn't say that I don't believe you. I just find it a little absurd that you would do something like that over that other girl.... sorry," Kairi finished, seeing Roy's expression.

"Just don't mention her, alright? I still never should have told her... "

"Told her what, Roy?" Kairi inquired.

"If I tell you, you'll run from me just like she did. She didn't run from me immediatley, but once it sinks in, with time, you'll be gone, too!"

"No, I won't!"

"I she swore the same thing!" Roy said, sitting up in bed. "SHE SWORE!" Before he knew it, Roy had broken down into tears.

Kairi wasn't sure what to think. She had never seen anyone act this way over someone. Well, that wasn't exactly true. She remembered that her friend Sora hadn't taken her seeing Roy too well, either.

"There, there," is all she managed to say as she stroked his hair. "It will be fine. Surely, if she left you because of a 'terrible' secret, then she wasn't worth it anyway."

"Don't dare say that!!" Roy shouted. "Leave! Please! If that's all you're going to do... "

"I'm not going until I know that you're going to be alright!" Kairi argued back.

"I will be absolutely FINE!" Roy yelled. "FINE! But only if you shut up!"

Kairi stopped breathing for at least a moment. "I beg you, don't speak to me that way. I'm sorry, I won't bring it up, ever. But I am curious as to what you told her. I can't help but be. If it's bad enough to... well, if it's that bad, then you should trust someone with it."

"The only two people that know this are Link... and the person it has to do with."

"Of course Link knows, he knows so much about you, right?" Kairi was silent for a moment. "So you don't want to tell me who the other person is?"

Roy sighed. "Marth. He's the one that it has to do with."

"Well, if it has to do with Marth, it can't possibly be as bad as you say it is. He's a friend! Maybe you guys... made some bad choices, like, did something to get in trouble with the police?"

"Do you honestly think that something like this would run Malon off?"

"No," Kairi replied honestly. "No, I don't. She would probably just have laughed and said, 'You two were young.' "

"Yeah, but she didn't. But you were right about it being a bad choice."

"So you're going to tell me?"

"Does it appear that I have a choice?" Roy asked. "But you'll just run, too."

"I promise I won't."

"You sound just like her."

"I'm sorry, but I promise. We've known each other longer than you and Malon did. Remember that one time that you actually decided to talk about her? You told me that you and her had only known each other about two weeks before you started going out."

"You're right. I'll tell you." Roy smiled. "I do trust you. You're a great friend."

"It's good to know that you forgive me." Kairi smiled.

Roy smiled back. "Homecoming, my sophomore year. Marth went with Peach, as everyone knows, and that's when their relationship started. But something happened between me and Marth, and I trusted Malon with it."

"And that would be... "

"Marth only ran to Peach, he told me, because of what happened between me and him. He needed comfort. But afterward, he said he was glad that he was with Peach, until he found out she was pregnant."

"You're trying to prolong this as much as possible, aren't you?" Kairi asked, a playful grin forming on her lips.

"You read me like a book. But fine. No more prolonging."

"So tell me."

Roy just sat silent for a moment, preparing himself. "Marth and I... we... we kissed, Kairi. We kissed... more than once."

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Author's Notes -- End Chapter Three!! ^_^

Eighteen reviews already! Gosh, how lucky can someone get?! Guys, I am SOOO thankful for your response! It's amazing to see how well-recieved my writing is. I love hearing from you guys!

Again, sorry for the delay on this chapter. I had a ballgame on Friday and a marching band contest to work at on Saturday! =) I love marching contests... especially when my band isn't in them... :S

About the legal drinking age -- where I'm from, 21 is the legal drinking age. (I live in Alabama. I'm not sure if it differs in every state or not (kinda dumb when it comes to laws sometimes!), but I always hear that it's 21. =) Sorry for any confusion.

*lol* Sorry if I scared anyone into thinking that Roy was dead! *shivers* I don't think I could ever kill off a character, unless it were one of my own.

Please review and let me know what you think!!